Quick Guide to Zoom at LU

This is a quick guide for you to easily find information about the most basic and important functions in Zoom.

We recommend everyone to participate in a workshop about how to use Zoom. Dates and times are announced here. 

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Login to Zoom

Go to https://lu-se.zoom.us/ and log in with your LUCAT-id.

For more information, go to the page Login to Zoom. 

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Participate in a Meeting

Click on the invite link you have received in the invitation. If it is your first time participating in a meeting, you need to download and install the Zoom client via https://lu-se.zoom.us/download Links to an external site.. For PC.LU.SE, download the client from Software Center, and for LUMAC from Self Service.

For more information, go to the page Participating in Meetings.

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Create a New Meeting and Invite Participants

You can create a new meeting when you have logged in via https://lu-se.zoom.us/ Links to an external site. > Personal > Meetings. You can invite participants by sharing the invite link in the educational platform, sending it via email or from inside your meeting room.

For more information, go to the page Creating Meetings and Inviting Participants.

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Record Your Meeting

When recording a meeting via Zoom, the video will be downloaded to your computer when the meeting has ended. You can upload it to your teaching environment, e.g. via Studio in Canvas.  

For more information, go to the page Sharing Your Recorded Meeting with Canvas Studio.

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Create Groups (Breakout Rooms)

You can divide your participants into groups for e.g. beehives inside your meeting. Do this by using the function "Breakout Rooms". 

For more information, go to the page Create Breakout Rooms.

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Use the Chat

You can chat with everyone, but also send private messages to individual participants, in your meeting. You can also share links and files in the chat.

For more information, go to the page Using the Chat.

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Share and Show Things from Your Screen

Use the function "Share Screen" in your meeting to show presentations, videos or browser windows. It is also possible to draw and annotate in order to show or explain something. 

For more information, go to the page Sharing Screens.

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Security

It is important to protect your digital meetings from intrusions and disruptions as much as possible.

For more information, go to the pages Zoom at LU and Security and Creating the Safest Possible Public Meeting.

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Tips and Advice

For further tips and advice on what is good to keep in mind during meetings via Zoom, go to the page Tips on How to Prepare for Your E-meeting!

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